INTRODUCTION According to current estimates, 85% of children born with congenital heart disease survive to reach adulthood.1 The spectrum of congenital heart diseases in adults is changing markedly, ...

Thanks to innovative surgeons, the original technique has evolved throughout the years and undergone various modifications with the goal of decreasing surgical mortality and prolonging the longevity ...

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS Over 75 years ago, Saunders1 described the clinical triad of arterial hypotension, elevated jugular venous pressure, and clear lung fields in a patient with extensive necrosis ...

[...]this communication is made not through the middle wall of the heart, as is commonly believed, but by a very ingenious arrangement the subtle blood is urged forward by a long course through the ...